Medicine’s Maroun Semaan discusses impact of innovative auditory brainstem implant

Teen hears with her brain, not ears
wkyc.com: Maggie Gleason, who was born deaf, heard sound for the first time when hearing specialists at University Hospitals Case Medical Center turned on an innovative electronic device called an auditory brainstem implant. “For someone who has never heard, the perception and awareness of sound is extremely helpful,” said Maroun Semaan, associate professor of otolaryngology and one of Maggie’s surgeons.